Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Medicine through time (Ancient History)
- Prehistory
- Causes
- Evil spirits
- Common sense
- Surgery
- Trephining
- Hole in the head to release the evil spirit within
- Simple Splints
- To set broken bones
- Made with mud and tree bark
- Treatments
- Herbal remedies
- Prayers and chants
- Via a medicine man
- Charms and amulets
- Ancient Egypt
- Causes
- Channel Theory
- Believed there to be channels running in the body
- Believed that if a channel became blocked then that area of the body became ill.
- Inspired by The Nile
- Gods and Spirits
- Treatments
- Herbal Remedies
- Potions and charms (supernatural)
- Regular washing in order to maintain purity
- Surgery
- Cutting out swellings and sewing up wounds
- Factors
- Religion
- Mummification
- Trade and Writing
- Allowed an increased knowledge to spread
- Ancient Greece
- Religion
- Asclepion
- Temple where Asclepios (the god of healing along with his daughters, Pancea and Hygeia) would heal someone who gave an offering and spent the night in his temple
- Hippocrates!
- 4 Humours Theory
- Humours had to be balanced or illness would ensue
- Encouraged observation and recording of illnesses
- Hippocratic Oath
- Look for natural treatments